Vulnerable Households to benefit from Edo-Cares grants

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(Nigeria) About 169 individuals from vulnerable households have been trained, yesterday, in Benin City, Edo State, to benefit from the Nigeria CARES  (COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus  (N-CARES) code named EDO-CARES) grants in Edo.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Humanitarian Affairs, Mrs. Ifueko Alufohai, during a one-day livelihood support training and orientation organised by the State Cash Transfer Unit. SCTU, explaining that the beneficiaries would be given grants ranging from N20,000 to N200,000.

Alufohai explained that the N-CARES was an emergency Relief World Bank funded programme put in place to ameliorate the adverse effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods, especially of the operators of businesses in the informal sector.

The Head, State Cash Transfer Unit, Flora Bossey in her welcome address said the programme was designed for economically active youth and women.

Bossey said: "This programme is Disbursement Linked  Indicator (DLI 1.3) under the Edo-Cares livelihood support programme, one of the eleven DLI being supported by the state sovernment.

"The programme is taking place in two pilot local government areas of Oredo and Ikpoba-Okha in the state. The beneficiaries were selected from the state social register for the poor and vulnerable household.

"The state government has made it possible for the beneficiaries to receive grants to improve their businesses that were affected by COVID-19.”

According to her, “What we are doing here today, is the first round of livelihood and soft skills training to support their businesses before the grants would be disbursed.”

Mrs. Precious Osunde, who spoke on behalf of the beneficiaries thanked the state government for the kind gesture and promised to expand her business with the grant.

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